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‘How is it that the French musette - a pre-WWII pop music with rustic roots and a prototypical audience of knife-wielding proletarians - sounds to contemporary American ears like the very essence of elegant sophistication?’

‘A manic mix-up of Gallic musette, American blues, gypsy jive and gin mill boogie-woogie, their sound may not be futuristic but it will trigger that primitive urge to shake a tail feather.’

1.2A dance to a musette, especially in the 18th-century French court.

‘Following a wave of immigration from the rural French Auvergne region to Paris, the hicks from the sticks brought with them the musette dance - named after an early precursor to the accordion that was central to the music.’

1.3A small simple variety of oboe, used chiefly in 19th-century France.

‘The second became the desire to do the same thing for all five oboes from musette to bass.’

‘Exceptions are the zampogna, the musette, and the uillean pipes, which have double reeds throughout.’

‘The piccolo oboe or musette used to be a bagpipe chanter and was very popular at the time of Marie-Antoinette at the French Court in Versailles.’

2US A small knapsack.

‘Thirty musette bags filled with two bottles, two gels, two bars, two candy bars, two pastries, and some fruit are made.’

‘In fact, the eventual winner took on no food nor musette bag at the Brest control and carried only three water bottles.’

‘I have always thought that the musette bags are hung with the buckles facing back towards the body so that after landing the bag could be quickly swung over the head to its normal carrying position.’

‘My compass is the same one that my dad had in his musette bag 60 or so years ago.’

‘The boys tossed out personal gear from their musette bags and filled them with ammunition.’

‘The musette bag had a few variations including the standard canvas type shown, a thick water-resistant treated material, a rubberized canvas material (also for waterproofing) and a rare HBT construction.’

‘As we prepared for the day's march, my head felt a bit sore from some hard object in my musette bag.’

‘A musette bag holds food and drinks and gets handed to the Tour riders in the feed zone.’

‘This musette bag is made from waterproof and ultra quiet stealth cloth with a waterproof rubber backing.’

‘When suture material ran short in the middle of one operation, one of the nurses ran for her ‘musette bag’ of personal hygiene items and found ‘a spool of white thread… and they sewed up his bladder with that.’’

‘Many types of ‘dispatch bag’ or ‘map bag’ canvas carriers were in use in addition to the musette bag which could be a pack or a shoulder bag.’

‘Our bedrolls were back with the rest of the troops, but we opened up the musette bags we carried, which contained extra socks and underwear, toilet kits, a blanket and half a canvas pup tent.’

‘These military backpacks are cool to wear, and designed to fit comfortably and snug as you hold the weight to the natural center of your back.’